Soul Mountain
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Soul Mountain
Gao XingjianFrom inside dust jacket cover of 2000 English translation: In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian (pronounced gow shing-jen) was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second ex …
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Gao Xingjian’s Nobel lecture “The Case for Literature”
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